Unlucky

Tanetus · Post by **Tanetus** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 9:34 am

In our league you could hire star players for permanent so, as soon as I could I bought Count Von Dragenborg to kick some butt.

In the first game he grabbed the ball, runned through enemy's defense, was going to score on round three, tripped in his own feet in going for it (in LAST square!) got his head smashed - Dead! - Regeneration failed!

What is your unluckiest efford ever in your team?

skwpp · Post by **skwpp** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 9:43 pm

Last round of the game against a orc team, score 2-2 . Orc player has 5 players on pitch, 1 goblin in my endzone. My thrower is standing 2 squares from him, with a blitzer, and attempts a pass (he had just picked up the ball, and i had players perfectly positioned to score a td with pass-handoff). Thrower passes, fumbles, rerolls, another 1, ball scatters to blitzer, who rolls a 1 to pick it up. Use a reroll, get a 2 (which is a failure because he is in the goblins tackle zone). The ball of course scatters to goblin who catches it and scores the winning touchdown!

noodle · Post by **noodle** » Mon Jul 21, 2003 10:08 am

Ah --> The first poast reminds me of Roger Mortis... A unique star player back in 3rd ed. The Blooded Crucifix had waited ages to buy this player as they entered the Albion league Superleague. However, in his debut game against Clar Karond Cobras (superleague champions and BPM KOWS HAGGES Cup winners) he was killed - and failed to regenerate...

The most overhyped and shortest career in ABBL history

grep-v · Post by **grep-v** » Mon Jul 21, 2003 11:05 am

In one of our leagues you may hire permanent stars, though they are unique and dead stars stay dead. Till now we had only two dead stars, Luthor and Morg (among the best you can get), and BOTH played for the same coach. Ironically enough, Luthor died while dodging, Morg was blocked to death. Whatever goes around comes around ...

Darkson · Post by **Darkson** » Mon Jul 21, 2003 11:22 am

When we first started the league we played a hybrid 3rd ed./LRB (due many to mis-reading of the rules

. One of the rules we played was that if you set up to many players which wasn't noticed until play started, a random player was Sent Off (harsh, but we lived with it).

Our human player, who was sufering badly anyway, freebooted Griff for the wooden spoon play-off. Went 1-0 down in the 2nd turn to Skaven. Set up 12 players for the kick-off, and noticed it as he started his turn, when the ball scattered to Griff who caught it. Rolled to see who the ref sent off.

Typically, it was Griff, who dropped the ball as well as leaving the pitch, causing a TO as well.

Needless to say, he ended up in the Wooden Spoon final

campaigner · Post by **campaigner** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 11:51 am

five days ago played my first BB match for ages against an old friend of mine which I just can't win against.

me: orcs, TR 263
he: humans, TR 212 or so

he gets three rolls on the handicap table and doesn't hurt me all that bad (he took out my niggle blitzer, had a ST5 frenzy blitzer for the game and something else I forgot)

lots of loony situations (it was 5 in the morning), 3 turns to go, score 1-1, I have got the ball and want to position my gobbo in a small cage, aof course he trips over (with sure feet)...

well, last turn, still 1-1, my thrower has got the ball (Strong arm and acc, so no prob for the planned pass), my heroic gobbo gets with 3 GFIs into the endzone... well, almost, he trips over again (yeah yeah, sure feet

) and the game is over.

things like that happen... especially against that one player

c

Princelucianus · Post by **Princelucianus** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 2:41 pm

I had two Minotaurs.
Nr 1- Grrrr's demise.
"After turning my opponents starplayer into a frog, I decide GFI once to get a 3D block on the green bugger. Rolled a 1 immediately, and he died because of it".
Nr 2- Brrrr's demise.
"My opponent's human catcher has the ball. So I decide to use my mino (with block), to get a 3D frenzying block. 3 skulls, Through the armour and dead".
Both died (I don't know what happened to my apo) while playing for the same team.
My new Mino still lives (Trrrr), but he's got a NI after an unfortunate encounter with a troll......

The others deaths were a while back though.

Lucy

Mirascael · Post by **Mirascael** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 11:11 am

well, old story:
255 SPPs AG 5 Wardancer fails GFI, fails RR, fails armour, injury, dead, apoth fails, turns into a Zombie.

Hrothgar · Post by **Hrothgar** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 11:40 am

My little brother just started a human team that included a permanent Griff. Griff successfully caught the pass, then started streaking for the endzone. He failed his leap roll, no RR, armor broke, and he died, apoth rolled a one. We both just busted out laughing. We remember that to this day.

noodle · Post by **noodle** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 12:39 pm

Checkov's demise:

human (kislev) catcher

8 2 5 7 catch dodge leap...

wizard lightning bolted my opponents AG 4 thrower, missed and hit Checkov instead.... all that remained were a pair of smoking boots...

(apothecary failed - obviously!)

Skummy · Post by **Skummy** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 12:56 pm

Okay, my Orcs have cleared every opposing player off of the pitch except for one Saurus, who's knocked over and doesn't have block.

I send a 4 strength thrower with block, an ogre and a black orc to stand around and keep him from going anywhere.

The Saurus stands up and attacks my thrower with 2 dice against, knocks him down, breaks the armor, gets a casualty, gets a kill, and the apothecary fails.

Xtreme · Post by **Xtreme** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 1:47 pm

noodle wrote:Checkov's demise:

human (kislev) catcher

8 2 5 7 catch dodge leap...

wizard lightning bolted my opponents AG 4 thrower, missed and hit Checkov instead.... all that remained were a pair of smoking boots...

(apothecary failed - obviously!)

This is my favorite story on this thread so far. I still want to laugh.

-tsk · Post by **-tsk** » Mon Aug 11, 2003 4:41 pm

Unlucky? Well, some of the sh*t is my own fault, but anyway... My first league match with my undead team was a total desaster!

1 dead ghoul
1 dead mummy(!)
and I lost 0-6 against a skaven team.

Two games after I had a skel with frenzy (don't ask why...) and the first thing I did on my turn was this: blitz with the frenzied skel, roll skull, reroll, roll skull, fell flat on his face and I lost my turn.

The second turn it was the exact repetition of the first, except for the skel getting badly hurt. So now I've named him Fraggle McCrap for his four skulls in a row unbelievable crappy luck. Well, atleast now I know what NOT to do first on my turn...

(btw this is my first reply so don't be puzzled if this isn't where it's supposed to be->unlucky)

Cool Hand Fluke · Post by **Cool Hand Fluke** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 12:05 pm

League final against Skaven with my CDs. Down 0-2 (thanks to an Ag. 5 GR with Blodge/Leap), turn 8 1st half (Rats received on the opening kick off).

My St 5 BC has the ball 4 squares into Rat's half. Defence only half formed due to an unsucceful dodge. A block by a CD frees the BC who only has to Blitz the GR out of the way to score (i'm thinking score now and don't let the frikkin GR get a sniff of the ball for the rest of the game.)

BC stomps the GR but fails the first GFI with double 1s. So much for a RR and Sure Feet

He survived for the 2nd half (still to be played). New Plan - sod the score, kill the GR

noodle · Post by **noodle** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 12:40 pm

A report of this match can be found at:

http://usitweb.shef.ac.uk/~wargamessoc/whfb/bloodbowl/

Anyway I shall keep saying I've seen worse...
Than again I have decided that I'm not unlucky - my luck just has comic timing... Why is it always the first thing in a complex play that fails, or the very last?

You can garuantee once you've made the 5+ 5+ 2 dice his pick block, you'll (I'll) fail the GFI for the TD....

Or, once you've got to the "aha, I CAN do it", you fail the first 2+ to pick up the ball...

Or, the dice percieve where the most vulnerable point of the manouvre is, opponent wise, and decide to fail JUST THERE.

Always the way...